military service

Questions about military service

What does military service mean?

military service means "a force that is a branch of the armed forces". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for military service?

Close synonyms include armed service, service. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is military service a common word?

military service is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.